Tag: Robin Barnes
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS AND POLITICAL STALEMATE BY ROBERT KUTTNER
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/constitutional-crisis-and_1_b_9395958.html?utm_hp_ref=politics The 2016 election year is shaping up to be America’s most serious constitutional crisis since the Civil War — and the most important partisan re-alignment since 1932 or maybe since 1860. To appreciate what’s at work, it’s important to understand these two trends, and how they interact. The essence of the constitutional crisis is […]
Posted: March 7th, 2016 under Constitutional Crisis, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Political Figures, Propaganda, Regulators.
Tags: American Prospect, Debtors' Prison, demagoguery, Democracy, Robert Kuttner, Robin Barnes
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JOURNALISM’S REAL HEROS AREN’T DRAWING OFFENSIVE CARTOONS
Two reminders: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that the body of Anabel Flores Salazar, a crime reporter for the El Sol de Orizaba newspaper, was found on the Cuacnopalan-Oaxaca road in Puebla state on 9 Feb 16, a day after the 32-year-old mother was abducted from her home in neighbouring Veracruz state. […]
Posted: February 19th, 2016 under Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Death Threats, Law Enforcement, Media.
Tags: First Amendment, Journalists, Robin Barnes
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The Beginning of a Political Revolution Led By Young Women By Robin Barnes
Parsing Talk of Danger, Targets, Hell and Bimbos This blog is largely devoted to media analysis, featuring original posts or those written by others that speak to issues surrounding media influence in public debate. The 2016 Election coverage offers the more grist for the mill than nearly any other source, as it provides a first-hand […]
Posted: February 10th, 2016 under Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Death Threats, Media, Multi-media platforms, Propaganda, Regulators.
Tags: 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Campaign Donations, Clinton, Corruption, Economic Crisis, Elizabeth Warren, Financial Fraud, Gloria Steinem, Goldman, Iowa, Lloyd Blankfein, Madeline Albright, New Hampshire, Robin Barnes, Rock the Vote
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Donald Trump is to Bernie Sanders as Archie Bunker is to Jon Stewart
Elite media often blur distinctions between right-wing populism and progressive populism — as though there’s not all that much difference between appealing to xenophobia and racism on the one hand and appealing for social justice and humanistic solidarity on the other.
Posted: January 27th, 2016 under Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Defamation, Fox News, GOP Debates, Lobbyists, Media, Media lawyers, Political Figures, Propaganda.
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Editors, Elizabeth Warren, Journalists, Politics, Robert Reich, Robin Barnes, Rupert Murdoch
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Press Freedom in the UK, Right Laws for the Right Reasons
The British press has a world-envied tradition of first-class investigatory journalism, of asking difficult questions, of seeing past the spin to hold the powerful to account. Let’s hope they uphold that proud tradition as they report on the battle to save the HRA in coming months.
Posted: January 23rd, 2016 under Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Defamation, Lobbyists, Media, Media lawyers, Regulators, UK.
Tags: Article 10, British Press, David Miranda, European Court of Human Rights, FOIA, Human Rights, Investigative Journalism, Liberty, Robin Barnes, Schedule 7, Victory for HRA
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Fox News is a hate machine, spewing out horrible things” about Muslims
Fox News is a hate machine, spewing out horrible things” about Muslims, Attorney Michael Malowney
Posted: January 23rd, 2016 under Death Threats, Fox News, Law Enforcement, Media.
Tags: Assault weapons, First Amendment, Hate Crimes, Islamophobia, News of the World, Robin Barnes, Rupert Murdoch
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The Never Ending Stream of Refugees
Citizens of numerous European nations have divided in two camps: Pro or Against refugees. The middle ground has a hard time getting any press.
Posted: January 17th, 2016 under Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Fox News, Media.
Tags: Cathrine Gyldensted, Constructive Journalism, Refugees, Robin Barnes, Syrian Crisis, Windesheim University
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Senator Bernie Sanders: History-Making Grassroots Support
Question of Media Black Out? Is the Democratic National Committee trying to undermine the presidential campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders? That’s the charge Sanders’ team is making amid a dust-up over a breach of voter information. On Friday, the DNC suspended Sanders’ access to a critical database after finding his staffers improperly viewed front-runner Hillary Clinton’s […]
Posted: January 6th, 2016 under Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Defamation, Fox News, International Monetary Fund, Media, Multi-media platforms.
Tags: 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Journalists, Robin Barnes
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Conviction: Former Cop, Serial Rapist Who Targeted Black Women Receives 263 Year Prison Sentence
Daniel Holtzclaw, a former college football player and pro NFL player in 2009 for the Detroit Lions, will serve life in prison for sexually assaulting over a dozen black women, mostly while on duty. Read Full Story http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/12/former_okc_officer_daniel_holtzclaw_found_guilty_on_18_of_36_charges_faces.html [1] Toni Irving, Decoding Black Women: Policing Practices and Rape Prosecution on the Streets of Philadelphia http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ff/summary/v020/20.2.irving.html […]
Posted: December 28th, 2015 under Media, Violence Against Women.
Tags: Robin Barnes, US Courts
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WHO OWNS MEDIA AND EDUCATION?
Here’s an addition to their litany with kudos to the huffpost media watch team for reporting that matters.
Posted: December 24th, 2015 under Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Independent, Media, Media lawyers, Propaganda.
Tags: First Amendment, Journalists, Robin Barnes, tabloids
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